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yborg commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

jeffgreco · a day ago

Including Threads with Fediverse might have an interesting impact.

yborg · 20 hours ago

Threads barely interchanges with the rest of the Fediverse, it's basically bridged. By this argument you could include Truth Social and Gab, which are directly based on Mastodon source.

yborg commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

epcoa · a day ago

> Despite the smaller total numbers in Mastadon, it's great to see that the ecosystem seems to be successfully avoiding centralization

But since essentially no one is using it doesn’t suggest much avoidance of centralization. These factors are not independent. It’s pretty easy to avoid anything when your total user count is a rounding error compared to the alternatives.

yborg · 21 hours ago

Bluesky user count is the same order of magnitude as Mastodon and is centralized. I think your argument is actually that if you are on a minority platform your wants and needs for how that platform operates are irrelevant. I suppose that's true if you aren't on the platform, but I don't think it's true if you are.

yborg commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ojr · 5 days ago

You want to use a mouse and keyboard and learn 20 buttons like it's 1990?

yborg · 5 days ago

I don't want to converse with a 4 year old with the world's photo libraries at its disposal. I spent 10 minutes trying to convince the model to add a watch to a person's left arm instead of the right arm and it would not do it, it apparently could not get the idea on this particular image. If I had a drawing tool I could circle where I wanted it and say 'THERE, stupid'. Next year when we have AGI all of this will be moot of course, but for now Photoshop isn't going away.

yborg commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

simianwords · 5 days ago

L like it but it is very restricted. I can't modify people's faces etc.

yborg · 5 days ago

Yeah, it doesn't look like the Safety Settings actually do anything, it refuses to edit anything with any words that could be construed to have sexual connotation even with restrictions all turned off.

yborg commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

Philpax · 11 days ago

The cookie will be invalidated if shared between IPs, and it's my understanding that most Anubis deployments are paired with per-IP rate limits, which should reduce the amount of overall volume by limiting how many independent requests can be made at any given time.

That being said, I agree with you that there are ways around this for a dedicated adversary, and that it's unlikely to be a long-term solution as-is. My hope is that the act of having to circumvent Anubis at scale will prompt some introspection (do you really need to be rescraping every website constantly?), but that's hopeful thinking.

yborg · 11 days ago

>do you really need to be rescraping every website constantly Yes, because if you believe you out-resource your competition, by doing this you deny them training material.

yborg commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

andrehacker · 17 days ago

As every other thread about LLMs here on HN points out: LLMs are stupid and useless as is. While I don't agree with that sentiment, no company has yet found a way to "do it right" to the extent that investments are justified in the long run. Apple has a history of "being late" and then obliterating the competition with products that are way ahead the early adopters (e.g. MP3 players, smart phones, smart watches).

yborg · 17 days ago

Yes, Vision Pro has really solved VR.

yborg commented on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS github.com/kushalpandya/P... · Posted by u/kushalpandya

yborg · 2 months ago

Get a malware warning when trying to open disk image, Sequoia refuses to open it :(

yborg commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees

yborg · 2 months ago

I remember reading this paper when it came out, didn't think it would be commercializable, and here we are.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2486001.2486039

yborg commented on Transparent Ambition take.surf/2025/06/19/tran... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

matznerd · 2 months ago

I think what you're missing is that this is likely in preparation for some sort of AR glasses and something smaller form factor than the Vision Pro that will require transparency so you can see through to the real world etc...

yborg · 2 months ago

Apple re-running the entire Windows Vista Metro arc.

yborg commented on Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes · Posted by u/throwarayes

senkora · 2 months ago

In finance, it is common to be paid your base wage during your non-compete. Or at least that is how mine worked.

yborg · 2 months ago

Since a huge chunk of comp in finance is bonus, especially if you're a rainmaker, I don't see how this is a win.

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